Monday, April 22, 2024 – A Nigerian Human Rights lawyer,
Sonnie Ekwowusi, has sparked off a debate on social media after claiming that
surrogacy is against natural law and is illegal in Nigeria.
During an interview with Arise TV, Ekwonwusi
said Surrogacy is simply womb renting and is the greatest violation of a
woman's dignity and section 30 of the Child Rights Act criminalizes surrogacy.
In his words
‘’Surrogacy is against natural law. It is
also against Nigerian law. A lot of people don't know that Surrogacy is illegal
in Nigeria because Surrogacy simply means mixing the sperm and egg and putting
in the womb of a woman, it is virtually called woman renting. and the woman
carries the baby for the nine months and delivers the baby and gives the baby
to the person who wants the baby and the same woman goes around and does the
same thing for another person . At the end of the day that woman becomes an object
and this is why it is said that surrogacy is the greatest violation of a
woman's dignity, the greatest violation of the identity of a woman and that is
why Section 30 of the Child's Right Act criminalizes it. It says that anybody
that buys, sells and exchanges a baby commits a crime and is punishable.
Surrogacy
also has to do with Child Trafficking. Part of the Child Trafficking Act also
condemns and criminalizes Surrogacy. You have the Child Rights act and the
trafficking law against it and the National Health act which talks about
Trafficking Human Zygote and Human Embryo because that is what it(surrogacy) is
all about.''
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